Sci Fiction

Sci Fiction
URL Sci Fiction
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Online Magazine
Owner SCIFI.com
Created by Ellen Datlow
Launched May 2000
Current status Defunct

Sci Fiction was an online magazine which ran from 2000 to 2005. At one time, it was the leading online science fiction magazine. Published by Syfy and edited by Ellen Datlow, the work won multiple awards before it was discontinued.

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History

The magazine was created by what was then the US Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy), and hosted at SCIFI.COM. The webzine starting publishing in May 2000. The principle editor was Ellen Datlow, who previously had previously edited two other online magazines: The online incarnation of OMNI, and Event Horizon.

The webzine first made a splash when Linda Nagata's "Goddesses" won the Nebula Award for Best Novella for 2000. It was the first time that a piece of fiction originally published on a website won a Nebula. In 2002 Ellen Datlow won her first Hugo Award for Best Editor. In 2003 stories from the webzine won three awards, the Nebula Awards for Best Short Story ("What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler) and Best Novelette ("The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford), and the Theodore Sturgeon Award for Lucius Shepard's novella "Over Yonder". In 2005, Datlow won her second Hugo Award for Best Editor and the website itself won a Hugo for Best Website. She also won her first Locus Award for Best Editor in 2005.

In late 2005 the SciFi Channel announced that it would be shutting down the magazine.[1] This decision was evidently made because the magazine was not a major revenue generator for the channel. SCIFI announced their intention to remove the Sci Fiction archived content as of June 2007, although some of it was still available over a year later.[2] It has since been removed completely.

List of Sci Fiction short stories

Originals

Title Author Uploaded URL
Freeing the Angels Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler May 19, 2000 [1]
The War of the Worlds James P. Blaylock May 24, 2000 [2]
Malthusian's Zombie Jeffrey Ford May 31, 2000 [3]
Chimera Kristine Kathryn Rusch June 7, 2000 [4]
Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977 Kim Newman June 14, 2000 [5]
The Cure for Everything Severna Park June 22, 2000 [6]
Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson June 28, 2000 [7]
Goddesses Linda Nagata July 5, 2000 [8]
Winter Quarters Howard Waldrop August 2, 2000 [9]
Partial Eclipse Graham Joyce August 9, 2000 [10]
Ciné Rimettato A. R. Morlan August 16, 2000 [11]
Tir-na-nOg Dave Hutchinson August 23, 2000 [12]
The Real World Steven Utley August 30, 2000 [13]
From the Files of the Time Rangers Richard Bowes September 6, 2000 [14]
Birdy Girl Robert Reed September 20, 2000 [15]
Wetlands Preserve Nancy Kress September 27, 2000 [16]
The Origin of Truth Tim Lebbon October 4, 2000 [17]
Nevada A. M. Dellamonica October 11, 2000 [18]
The Other Side James P. Blaylock October 18, 2000 [19]
The Pottawatomie Giant Andy Duncan November 1, 2000 [20]
The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanary Tale Ursula K. Le Guin November 8, 2000 [21]
Tomorrow Town Kim Newman November 15, 2000 [22]
The Despoblado Steven Utley November 22, 2000 [23]
A Cold Dish Lisa Tuttle November 29, 2000 [24]

Classics

Title Author Uploaded URL
The Ugly Chickens Howard Waldrop May 31, 2000 [25]
The Pope of the Chimps Robert Silverberg June 14, 2000 [26]
The Ship Who Sang Anne McCaffrey June 28, 2000 [27]
Nine Hundred Grandmothers R. A. Lafferty July 12, 2000 [28]
Casey Agonistes Richard McKenna July 29, 2000 [29]
The Detweiler Boy Tom Reamy August 9, 2000 [30]
A Wind Is Rising Robert Sheckley August 23, 2000 [31]
To Bell The Cat Joan D. Vinge September 6, 2000 [32]
Descending Thomas M. Disch September 20, 2000 [33]
The Man Who Loved the Faioli Roger Zelazny October 4, 2000 [34]
Corona Samuel R. Delany October 18, 2000 [35]
Belling Martha Leigh Kennedy November 1, 2000 [36]
When It Changed Joanna Russ November 15, 2000 [37]
The Dance of the Changer and the Three Terry Carr November 29, 2000 [38]
The Meaning of the Word Chelsea Quinn Yarbro December 13, 2000 [39]
The House the Blakeneys Built Avram Davidson December 27, 2000 [40]
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison January 24, 2001 [41]
The Day the Day the Martians Came Frederik Pohl April 4, 2001 [42]
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death James Tiptree, Jr. April 18, 2001 [43]
By the Falls Harry Harrison May 2, 2001 [44]
The Hat Trick Fredric Brown May 16, 2001 [45]
No Fire Burns Avram Davidson June 6, 2001 [46]
The Tomb Tapper James Blish June 20, 2001 [47]
Bernie the Faust William Tenn July 11, 2001 [48]
Consider Her Ways John Wyndham August 8, 2001 [49]
The Market in Aliens Barry N. Malzberg August 22, 2001 [50]
Light of Other Days Bob Shaw September 19, 2001 [51]
How Beautiful With Banners James Blish October 3, 2001 [52]
Men without Bones Gerald Kersh October 17, 2001 [53]
Bad Medicine Robert Sheckley November 7, 2001 [54]
The Heat Death of The Universe Pamela Zoline December 12, 2001 [55]
The Thousand Cuts Ian Watson January 2, 2002 [56]
Auto-da-Fé Roger Zelazny January 16, 2002 [57]
Outside Brian W. Aldiss February 6, 2002 [58]
The Funeral Kate Wilhelm March 19, 2002 [59]
Carcinoma Angels Norman Spinrad April 3, 2002 [60]
The Geezenstacksby Fredric Brown April 17, 2002 [61]
Hop-Friend Terry Carr June 5, 2002 [62]
Clerical Error Mark Clifton June 17, 2002 [63]
Cordle To Onion To Carrot Robert Sheckley July 24, 2002 [64]
The Women Men Don't See James Tiptree, Jr. August 21, 2002 [65]
It Becomes Necessary Ward Moore September 11, 2002 [66]
Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well Reginald Bretnor September 25, 2002 [67]
The Screwfly Solution Raccoona Sheldon October 9, 2002 [68]
Flash Point Gardner Dozois October 23, 2002 [69]
The Queen of Pig Island Gerald Kersh November 6, 2002 [70]
Waiting for Billy Star Tom Reamy November 20, 2002 [71]
Protection Robert Sheckley December 11, 2002 [72]
More Spinned Against ... John Wyndham December 25, 2002 [73]
Party of Two Parts William Tenn January 8, 2003 [74]
Let's Be Frank Brian W. Aldiss January 22, 2003 [75]
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World Philip José Farmer February 5, 2003 [76]
Casablanca Thomas M. Disch February 19, 2003 [77]
Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall Frank Belknap Long March 5, 2003 [78]
Frog Pond Chelsea Quinn Yarbro April 2, 2003 [79]
Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street Charles L. Grant April 16, 2003 [80]
Title Author Uploaded URL
High Weir Samuel R. Delany May 7, 2003 [81]
When I Was Miss Dow Sonya Dorman May 21, 2003 [82]
Touchstone Terry Carr June 4, 2003 [83]
A Full Member of the Club Bob Shaw June 18, 2003 [84]
David's Daddy Rosel George Brown July 2, 2003 [85]
What Now, Little Man? Mark Clifton July 16, 2003 [86]
Thirty Days Had September Robert F. Young August 6, 2003 [87]
The View from Endless Scarp Marta Randall August 20, 2003 [88]
It Walks in Beauty Chandler Davis September 3, 2003 [89]
Caught in the Organ Draft Robert Silverberg September 17, 2003 [90]
The Transcendent Tigers R. A. Lafferty October 1, 2003 [91]
The Fellow who Married the Maxill Girl Ward Moore October 15, 2003 [92]
The Golem Avram Davidson November 5, 2003 [93]
The Keepers of the House Lester del Rey December 3, 2003 [94]
Minnesota Gothic Thomas M. Disch December 17, 2003 [95]
The Prize of Peril Robert Sheckley January 7, 2004 [96]
The Stare John Wyndham January 21, 2004 [97]
Twilla Tom Reamy February 4, 2004 [98]
Ballenger's People Kris Ottman Neville February 18, 2004 [99]
King Solomon's Ring Roger Zelazny March 3, 2004 [100]
The Little Lamb Fredric Brown March 17, 2004 [101]
Sin's Doorway Manly Wade Wellman April 7, 2004 [102]
The Dandelion Girl Robert F. Young April 21, 2004 [103]
Un Bel Di Chelsea Quinn Yarbro May 5, 2004 [104]
Paul's Treehouse Gene Wolfe May 19, 2004 [105]
The Girl Had Guts Theodore Sturgeon June 2, 2004 [106]
Aye, and Gomorrah Samuel R. Delany July 7, 2004 [107]
Among the Dead Edward Bryant July 21, 2004 [108]
A Crowd of Shadows Charles L. Grant August 4, 2004 [109]
Gods Hooks! Howard Waldrop August 8, 2004 [110]
Can These Bones Live? Manly Wade Wellman September 1, 2004 [111]
Allamagoosa Eric Frank Russell September 15, 2004 [112]
View from a Height Joan D. Vinge October 6, 2004 [113]
A Kingdom by the Sea Gardner Dozois October 20, 2004 [114]
Bagatelle John Varley November 3, 2004 [115]
Two Weeks in August Frank M. Robinson December 1, 2004 [116]
Transfer Barry N. Malzberg December 15, 2004 [117]
Gather Blue Roses Pamela Sargent January 5, 2005 [118]
Beam Us Home James Tiptree, Jr. January 19, 2005 [119]
Familiar Pattern A. Bertram Chandler February 2, 2005 [120]
The Yellow Pill Rog Phillips February 16, 2005 [121]
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To Alfred Bester March 2, 2005 [122]
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be Gahan Wilson April 6, 2005 [123]
Brown Robert Terry Carr April 20, 2005 [124]
The White King's Dream Elizabeth A. Lynn May 18, 2005 [125]
Transformer Chad Oliver June 1, 2005 [126]
Mouse Fredric Brown June 15, 2005 [127]
Come On, Wagon Zenna Henderson July 6, 2005 [128]
The Tenants William Tenn July 20, 2005 [129]
A Life in the Day of... Frank M. Robinson August 3, 2005 [130]
To Be Continued... Robert Silverberg August 17, 2005 [131]
Under the Hollywood Sign Tom Reamy September 14, 2005 [132]
The Water Sculptor George Zebrowski September 28, 2005 [133]
Painwise James Tiptree, Jr. October 12, 2005 [134]
The Beautiful People Robert Bloch November 9, 2005 [135]
The Man Who Never Forgot Robert Silverberg November 23, 2005 [136]
Star Light, Star Bright Alfred Bester December 7, 2005 [137]
The Great Wall of Mexico John Sladek December 21, 2005 [138]

See also

References

  1. ^ Jason Sanford (13 November 2005). "SciFi Channel wades deeper into muck by dropping SciFiction journal". StorySouth. http://www.storysouth.com/comment/2005/11/scifi_channel_wades_deeper_int.html. Retrieved 13 October 2010. 
  2. ^ "Sci Fiction Archive". Sci Fiction. Archived from the original on 2009-03-04. http://replay.web.archive.org/20090304013308/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html. "As of Friday, June 15, 2007, SCI FICTION will no longer be availabe on SCIFI.COM." 

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